scriggle

I read dooce.com every day, and sometimes she has a posting called "How to annoy me" or "How to charm me" and I think that those are just awesome. I don't want to be a copy cat, but I really feel the need to be able to vent when things bug me. So Dooce, if there is any chance in hell that you are actually reading this one day ... please accept my apology for stealing your idea.

Irk:
Traffic. OH. MY. WORD. People. Please, seriously. Every morning a part of my drive to work is down a major freeway, thankfully I only have to go about 5 or 6 miles on the freeway but the vast majority of people who are traveling down this road any given morning must have the combined I.Q. of an amoeba. Then I get the pleasure of going right through the middle of our cities downtown, right by all the court buildings and police station. This makes for quite a few frustrating moments on my commute. Here are a few specific things I can't stand:

1. If someone has their blinker on ... LET THEM OVER.
2. If a lane is 'exit only' - and clearly marked that way for a mile before hand - do NOT wait til the very last second possible to get over and make those of the rest of us who are actually exiting there come to a complete stop while you wait for someone to let you in (This also goes back to #1 on the list).
3. For the love of all that is holy, do not use a merge lane for traffic entering the freeway to zip around a big - albeit slow as a slug - 18 wheeler. This is not cool.
4. The road is not your trash can, nor is it your ash tray. Come on people, lets be grown ups. You are gonna make that poor American Indian man cry again.
   
5. Just because you are driving through an area you aren't familiar with, doesn't mean traffic laws are null and void. It is NOT OK to turn left from the right center lane of a 4 lane-one way street.
6. A yellow light does not mean speed up, it means slow down and stop if you can safely do so. Even if you are late to work or court.
   
7. And because I can not say it enough ... If someone has their blinker on, LET THEM OVER for crying out loud!
   

Labels: irks

Posted by scriggle on Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 3:34 PM | Permalink